Nemur nodded graciously at the chairman's introductory praise and winked at Strauss in the triumph of the moment.
The first speaker from Beekman was Professor Clinger. I was becoming irritated,
and I could see that Algernon, upset by the smoke, the buzzing, the unaccustomed surroundings, was moving around in his cage nervously.
I had the strangest compulsion to open his cage and let him out. It was an absurd thought—more of an itch than a thought—and I tried to ignore it.
But as I listened to Professor Clinger's stereotyped paper on
"The effects of left-handed goal boxes in a T-maze versus right-handed goal boxes in a T-maze,"
I found myself toying with the release-lock mechanism of Algernon's cage.
In a short while (before Strauss and Nemur would unveil their crowning achievement)
Burt would read a paper describing the procedures and results of administering intelligence and learning tests he had devised for Algernon.
This would be followed by a demonstration as Algernon was put through his paces of solving a problem
in order to get his meal (something I have never stopped resenting!).
Not that I had anything against Burt. He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—
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